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1. We raced around – bringing in laundry, closing windows and screen doors – battening down the hatches.
2. "It might look like weare battening our hatches but we are not," Mr Manuel said.
3. You are simply one of the literally innumerable organisms battening on its flanks.
4. In the first, he says, the government was "battening the hatches" ahead of the May election.
5. As the South shivered, those in Manchester found themselves battening down the hatches as a mini tornado swept the region.